Articles by Ben Martin

  • Tigers’ flag was their first win over Eagles in a decade

    The Colac Tigers timed their first win over Newtown and Chilwell in more than a decade to perfection, as the Tigers’ 24-year premiership drought came to an end on Saturday.

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  • Colac ends 24-year drought

    Only four players from the Colac Tigers’ A Grade premiership team had been born the last time the club won a top-grade premiership.

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  • Tigers netball stalwart always had belief in club

    Colac’s current longest-serving A Grader Kelsey Lang says she always had belief the club had what it took to win an A Grade premiership.

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  • Eighth club award for Hawks coach

    Apollo Bay netball coach Rhiannon White has wrapped up the 2022 season with an incredible eighth club best-and-fairest award.

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  • Reliable defender wins Tigers’ medal

    Simpson defender Jamie Barry has pipped pre-count favourites to win his first club best-and-fairest award, while there were no surprises in the Tigers’ A Grade netball count.

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  • Star defender modest after medal win

    She’s one of Colac’s greatest ever netball exports, but Brooke Allan says she did not expect to win the best-on-court medal in the Tigers’ drought-breaking grand final win.

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  • Team of the Year players re-sign

    The Colac Tigers have announced their first crop of re-signings, with three members of this year’s Geelong Football Netball League Team of the Year among the bunch.

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  • ‘They’ve got what it takes’

    Colac netball president Andrea Graham has seen her fair share of star players miss out on the ultimate success with Colac, but says the current crop of talented Tigers has what it takes to end the drought.

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